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A bus driver at Stockholm allegedly divided his passnegers between "Swedes" and "foreign looking". Source: Supplied

A BUS driver allegedly divided up passengers between "Swedes" and "foreign looking" to get on separate buses to a ferry terminal.

The Swedish driver, working for People Travel Group, reportedly divided up the passengers, in an incident described as "apartheid", on at least two occasions last Wednesday and Thursday as commuters were to be transported beween Stockholm and the Eckerölinjen ferry terminal in Grisslehamn.

The passengers were heading for the Finnish archipelago island of Åland.

"It was a very unpleasant experience...It felt like we were on our way to Arlanda Airport to be deported from Sweden," one of the passengers, Samer Chatila, told newspaper Dagens Nyheter (DN).

Chatila, who was born in Sweden, was travelling with his brother Ahmad and a friend when the three noticed that the bus driver appeared to be dividing passengers based on their looks.

The driver stood between the exit and the bus and pointed the three to one of the buses, following them to make sure they got on board. At first they thought the driver was being friendly, but they soon began to suspect that something else was happened.

They noticed that all "Swedish-looking" passengers were being directed to a different bus, while everyone who boarded their bus was foreign-looking or dark-skinned.

"We felt insulted, offended and discriminated against," said Chatila.

"I never thought this could happen in our Sweden."

When they challenged the driver, they were told that if they did not like the system they could get off the bus.

People Travel Group director Tomas Karlsson said the driver, who has been stood down, will appear before a disciplinary board today to explain his actions after a number of complaints were made, The Local reported.

"It seems like this was a single driver’s decision and it only happened twice, but that is bad enough," Karlsson added.

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